Chiesa di San Pantalon
Chiesa di San Pantalon, also known locally as Chiesa di San Pantaleone, is a Catholic parish church dedicated to Saint Pantaleon. Built in 1668, it sits on Campo San Pantalon and belongs to the Vicariate of San Polo–Santa Croce–Dorsoduro, linking it to the administration of Venice’s church life in the seventeenth century. What dominates this church is its ceiling painting: the immense “Martyrdom and Apotheosis of St Pantalon,” executed on canvas by Gian Antonio Fumiani between 1680 and 1704. Fumiani painted it from scaffolding, and he fell to his death while working—an ending that turns the artwork’s drama into a literal story of labour and risk. …
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